OOC: I feel the need to remind you that you can't control the actions of my character nor decide whether I take a hit, you said you read the rules

Erika felt the blows connect and lay bemused in the sand. She raised a hand and daintily drew a glyph of protection. It hovered glowing brightly in the air before fading out of sight. Erika stretched out her arms and legs. she was testing him, how easy he was to provoke, if he'd lose his head and charge. She had the advantage, glyph magic was used only by angels and demons. Erika rose to her feet, he would attack eventually, he had after all been circling in for the attack for some time now. She raised a finger and pressed it against her hidden glyph, it reappeared shining brightly. She started to tap at the glyph staring intently at the man, the flickering light flashing off her eyes. To the man it would look like she was playing him for a fool, but the reality was far different. She had made a double glyph, hidden another in the nexus of the protection glyph. She had drawn it a dot at a time slowly building it up while deceiving the foe. It was a fire glyph, coupled with protection it would block and burn.
"let's see him try to kick me now."